Alejandra María Álvarez Orrego is a product design engineer with a master’s in Marketing and more than 13 years of experience designing, formulating and leading sustainable mobility and public space projects and policies. For the past 8 years she has led the mainstreaming of gender and differential approaches. She has directed Colombia’s National Active Mobility Strategy and the National Protocol against Violence in Transport, integrating human-centred design, qualitative research and participatory processes.